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King Lear Quotes Flashcards

1
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Our basest beggars …

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Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man’s life is cheap as beast’s.” - King Lear, Act 2,
Scene 4

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2
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let him smell …

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let him smell his way to dover - act 3 scene 7

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3
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‘darkest tradgedy’ …

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Kermode

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4
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power, property and inheritance

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dollimore

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5
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the young shall rise …

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‘the young shall rise when the old doth fall’

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6
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the play ‘king lear’ is monstrously unjust

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A.C. bradley

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Goner and regan are ‘personifications of ingratitude’

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Hudson

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8
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Shake all cares

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shake all cares and business from our age

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9
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Nothing …

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Nothing will come from nothing

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10
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Come not between …

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come not between the dragon and his wrath

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11
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Kind

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kind nursery

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12
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hideous

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hideous rashness

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13
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according to my bond

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according to my bond, no more no less

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14
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now gods …

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now gods stand up for bastards

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15
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the father should be …

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the father should be as ward to the dome and the song manage his revenue

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16
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the bond cracked …

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the bond cracked ‘twixt son and father

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17
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my cue is

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my cue is villainous melancholy

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18
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old fools

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old fools are babes again

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19
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who is that

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who is that can tell me who i am

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20
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how sharper than a

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how sharper than a servants tooth it is to have a thankless child

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21
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I am ashamed that thou

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I am ashamed that thou hast power to shake my manhood

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22
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thou should not have been

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thou should have not been old till thou hadn’t been wise

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23
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no port

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no port is free

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24
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edgar I am

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Edgar i am nothing

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25
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Death on

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death on my state

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26
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dart your blinding

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dart your blinding flames into her scornful eyes

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27
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I abjure all roofs ….

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I abjure all roofs to be comrade with the wolf and owl

28
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Man’s life

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Man’s life is cheap as beasts

29
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I will do such things …

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I will do such things – what they are yet I know not but they shall be the terrors of the Earth 

30
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shut up

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shut up your doors

31
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crack nature

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crack nature moulds

32
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my wits begin

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my wits being to turn

33
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the realm of albion

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the reason of albion come to great confusion

34
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the younger rises

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the younger rises when the old doth fall

35
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filial

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filial ingratitude

36
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pour on …

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pour on, i will endure

37
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is man no more

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is man no more then this? consider him well

38
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oppressed nature ..

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oppressed nature sleeps

39
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winged vengeance

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winged van hence overtake such children

40
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 better servers have I…

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 better service have I never done you than now to bid you hold? 

41
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out …

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out vile jelly

42
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all dark …

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all dark and comfortless

43
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let him …

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let him smell his way to dover

44
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as flies are to wanton boys …

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as flies are to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport

45
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Distribution should ….

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Distribution should excess and each man have enough

46
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to thee a …

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to thee a woman’s services are due

47
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she shook holy …

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she shook holy water from her heavenly eyes

48
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unpublished

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unpublished virtues

49
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i’ll love thee much

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i’ll love thee much; let me unseal the letter

50
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why do I trifle thus …

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Why do i trifle this his despair is done to cure

51
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thy life’s a miracle

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thy lifes a miracle. speak it yet again

52
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They told me I was everything …

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They told me I was everything; tis a lie, I am not ague - proof

53
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Down from the waist …

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Down from the waist they are centaurs … the sulphurous pit’

54
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I am cut

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I am cut to the brains

55
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Let this kiss …

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Let this kiss repair those violent harms

56
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Would I were assured …

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Would I were assured of my condition

57
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I am a very foolish …

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I am a very foolish, fond old man

58
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Ripeness

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ripeness is all

59
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Lets away to prison ….

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lets away to prison; we two will sing alone like birds i’the cage

60
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This gilded …

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This gilded serpent

61
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(aside) ‘if not i’ll ne’er

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if not i’ll ne’er trust medicine

62
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became his guide

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became his guide … saved him from despair

63
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alls cheerless …

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alls cheerless, dark and deadly

64
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all friends shall taste the

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all friends shall taste the wages of their virtues

65
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gored …

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gored state

66
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speak what we feel, not …

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speak what we feel not what we ought to say

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